NDC Lacks Strategy And Tactics, They Talk Too Much – Former Attorney General On Speaker’s Declaration Of 4 Seats Vacant

Former Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Nii Ayikoi Otoo thinks that members of Parliament from the National Democratic Congress (NDC) side lack tactics and strategy, and that they

He said by talking too much, the NDC side end up revealing their plans and that enables their opponents from the New Patriotic Party (NPP) side to act and prepare appropriately to thwart their moves.

Mr Ayikoi Otoo who was commenting on the Supreme Court’s halting of the Speaker’s ruling that declared four seats in Parliament vacant said, even before the consequential issues from the Speaker’s ruling were implemented, the NDC side started talking publicly, claiming they were going to repeal certain laws and all other things that they intended doing.

They were in the media talking about all those issues instead of keeping quiet and doing their things in the Chamber.

Even before they brought up the issue of the four members of Parliament to the floor for deliberation, they had started talking outside of Parliament on political platforms that they were going to remove those four MPs from Parliament.

That, he said enabled the NPP side to put their House in order and initiated moves to thwart it, including going to court timeously.

He said the NDC shot themselves in the foot by talking too much and therefore ended up frightening the Majority for them to wake up to act.

Mr Ayikoi Otoo was speaking in a radio interview with Accra based Citi FM, monitored by Graphic Online.

Commenting on a public debate as to why this particularly case had gained the attention of the Supreme Court timeously when other cases are delaying, Mr Ayikoi Otoo said that argument was flawed in the sense that “this is an ex parte application.”

He said an ex parte application is looked at from the urgency of the situation.

“I think I will take this opportunity to advise the NDC, I think they shot themselves in the foot by talking too much. You talk about strategies and tactics and I think it is lost on them [NDC] completely and they were doing things, which really frightened the Majority and pushed them into trying to protect whatever. We [NDC] are going to amend laws, change this… just keep quiet and do your thing, at the end of the day, when you get whatever you want to get fine.”

“Anything you want to do think about your strategy and tactics and stop making too much noise. The noise was such that when you frighten somebody, the basic instinct of a man is to protect his life and to survive. All the things they [NDC] did, compelled the Majority to take this decision they have taken.”

“When you file a motion on notice, then both sides must be served. The thing the Judiciary doesn’t want is not giving a hearing before condemning anybody.

He said an ex parte application is used in extreme cases and based on what the NDC was overreacting and doing things that pushed the Majority to go the extreme of going to take an ex parte application.

 

 

 

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